Developing the game takes money whether it is for building a new clubhouse or buying a new team kit. Help is at hand from a range of Funding pots. Here is your guide to the main ones...
Applicants are encouraged to consider how each of the sources could meet their needs thereby ensuring that funds stretch further and that a successful application is more likely.
In seeking support from some of these sources, you will generally be expected to demonstrate the wider community benefits of their proposals. In addition, availability of some of the following resources will depend on the location of any proposed project.
FOOTBALL FOUNDATION
The Football Foundation is the UK’s largest sports charity. Funded equally by the Premier League, The Football Association and the Government, it directs £40m every year into grass roots sports. The Foundation ensures this investment goes towards rebuilding the infrastructure of local sport across the country by funding new facilities such as changing pavilions, grass pitches and floodlit artificial grass pitches. The Foundation also funds community schemes that use the power of sport to address issues in society’s key areas, i.e. health and wellbeing, education and lifelong learning, social inclusion and equalities. Through the work of the Football Foundation, football and government funding is used to increase participation in sport, keep our nation healthy, our workforce skilled, our communities safe and our society fair and equal. Since its launch in July 2000 the Foundation has supported 5000 projects worth over £700m.
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Sport England is the strategic lead for delivering the Government's sporting objectives in this country distributing both Lottery and Exchequer funds to sport
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Inspired Facilities is focused on making it easier for local community and volunteer groups to improve and refurbish sports clubs or transform non-sporting venues into modern grassroots sport facilities. Part of Places People Play, Sport England’s programme to deliver a London 2012 legacy of increased mass participation in sport, it is investing £50 million of National Lottery funding in up to 1000 community sports projects between 2011 and 2014.
